journalism

Can “diverse” journalists be unbiased when the issue of diversity itself has become politicized?

How do you cover the rise of a political leader who’s left a paper trail of anti-constitutionalism, racism and the encouragement of violence? That’s a question US journalists faced after the ascendance of fascist leaders in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.

Katie Nelson is a freelance photographer and reporter in Nairobi. On a recent trip to a bookstore, she picked up some old National Geographic magazines, including one that is quite famous. The timing, though, was quite ironic.

Prominent British-Lebanese TV presenter Liliane Daoud was arrested and deported out of Egypt this week. She says her deportation is the latest in a long series of crackdowns on vocal journalists in Egypt.

“We are in 2016 and still have diggers being tortured with a machete,” says on Angolan journalist who has dedicated his life to covering blood diamonds.